Day: September 22, 2006

Male Brains, Female Brains and Fictional Narrative

People aren’t buying literary fiction, we are told. Male readers in particular aren’t buying it. The reasons given these days are sometimes based on what academics call “essentialist” explanations; in other words, these activities — or lack thereof — are the result of genes. Women, we are told in recent … Read the rest

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